This list is by no means comprehensive, so feel free to add any that I may have missed. (I also encourage additions of any "C&R Discount" providers out there beyond Midway & Brownells.)

DISCLAIMER: I have not conducted business with all of the vendors listed below and am not laible for any loss or heartburn due to poor business transactions. If there is a particular vendor who has a poor reputation, please contact me via Email or IM and I'll remove them from the list.

Save your stamp on Springfield Sporters Inc. I just got a letter from them dated 9/10/02 that says they have closed their mail order dept. and ceased retail sales. It was nice of them to send me the notice. I did some business with them some years back when I had a FFL.

Here's a Word document with all the entries in alphabetical order (makes it easier to find 'em). Right click the link and save it to your desktop for quick reference. Then just open the document and click on the links. I also make notes under the entry (prices, etc).

When mailing out to different vendors, the following returned mine saying you must have a FFL and not just a C&R as they only deal with vendors. So, unless you have a FFL you may want to exclude this vendor.

My C&R FFL and letter sent to Enterprise Arms at the above address on 2 March 2005 was returned:

Return to senderNot deliverable as addressedUnable to forward

I was ready to use the Excel sheet above myself this past week and while it certainly saved me some time on the front end (thanks guys), I'm glad that I decided to verify all of the addresses that I could via the web before mailing because there were several addresses that had either changed or that had transposed info (wrong zip codes, etc.).

I will post the address errors that I found over the weekend so that you guys don't have to reinvent that wheel.

Specifically for the above, the new address is:Entréprise Arms5321 Irwindale AveIrwindale, CA 91706-2025

"When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." - General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

My C&R FFL and letter sent to Enterprise Arms at the above address on 2 March 2005 was returned:

Return to senderNot deliverable as addressedUnable to forward

I was ready to use the Excel sheet above myself this past week and while it certainly saved me some time on the front end (thanks guys), I'm glad that I decided to verify all of the addresses that I could via the web before mailing because there were several addresses that had either changed or that had transposed info (wrong zip codes, etc.).

I will post the address errors that I found over the weekend so that you guys don't have to reinvent that wheel.

Specifically for the above, the new address is:Entréprise Arms5321 Irwindale AveIrwindale, CA 91706-2025

Good deal.

FWIW, the information in my Excel spreadsheet was from the original info (cut & paste) from the list at the beginning of this thread. We'll probably have to stay on top of this as I'm sure it will change over time no matter what.

So far the only returned letter I've received was the one from Enterprise Arms.

Proud resident of the Uzi Triangle.

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New to this site, and btw, excellent collection of c&r dealers. Since there are so many, which 10 would you guys send your c&r to? Are there any others besides AIM, SOG, and Century that are worthwhile to send to?

Also, what would you guys recommend someone buy who has few c&r rifles? So far I have a German Mauser and a Yugo SKS and have an Enfield and a K31 on pre-order.

Originally Posted By TarzanFainberg:New to this site, and btw, excellent collection of c&r dealers. Since there are so many, which 10 would you guys send your c&r to? Are there any others besides AIM, SOG, and Century that are worthwhile to send to?

Also, what would you guys recommend someone buy who has few c&r rifles? So far I have a German Mauser and a Yugo SKS and have an Enfield and a K31 on pre-order.

Try a Mosin Nagant. I've got an M44 (not from my C&R though) that has a badly pitted bore. Even with the bore in such bad shape, there's just something about that hard-hitting little bolt gun with the nasty sidefolding bayonet that warms the cockles of my heart.

Aimsurplus, Centerfire, and Wholesale Hunter do not respond to their emails nor did they even bother to acknowledge they received my C&R license. I sent the first 2 signed-in-ink C&Rs along with the standard letter. Every other vendor that received the signed-in-ink C&R bothered to send an email acknowledging they have my paperwork on file. I figured out that most places that sell C&R firearms will tend to want the signed-in-ink paper, whereas the places that sell parts and give dealer discounts can accept faxed copies. This should save you some stamp money. Most of the places that received the signed in ink C&R (CMP, makarov.com) responded almost immediately.

I faxed it to Wholesale Hunter and CMMG, but CMMG said they're not WH (even tho their addresses, fax #s, etc... are the same). WH lists a different return address, and I sent it to them without getting so much as a peep. Luckily, WH has nothing I want anyhow. I faxed copies to Grafs, Midway, Brownells, Tapco and a few other places w/o any problems.

I have tried contacting Aimsurplus and Centerfire several times w/o any success.

I got my C&R last night at the PO.... so I'm making available the updated list of vendors I'm using, and the updated address labels. These are both the ones listed above, but with a couple add-ons and subtractions, a total of 61 addresses I think it ended up being.

I also setup my letter to be a mail merge document for putting the dealers addresses in. I'll include that as well, jut when you open it, go into mail merge options and tell it to use the C&R_Dealers.xls file as source.

My letter takes less than 1/2 a page, so the plan is to photocopy the license to the bottom half then print the letters on the top half. That way I am sending only one piece of paper.

Thanks to everyone who worked on this, I'm just trying to help out some as well.

UPDATE:I've started getting responses, the photocopy of the FFL on the bottom half of the letter seems to be accepted fine. I did get a couple returned for new addresses, and have updated the files above.